CHICO LAST DAY: CRANETASTIC AND PINTAIL LOVE

This was my last day at the Chico Goose Festival. Today was waterfowl, I did a duck talk and then a duck walk. The highlights of the day for me were male Pintails in good light and close at hand, followed by, cranes just twenty yards outside the car window–all around Llano Seco.His and hers–tail. American Pipit, Llano Seco. Snow Goose.

Raven in Siskiyou Mountains. Mt. Shasta herself in custom-fitted cloud cloak. As I drove up the highway near Mt.. Shasta I passed through her own personal weather zone. Pushed before the wind a Shasta snowstorm of tiny specks formed swirls and rivulets that slithered across the freeway pavement.